Weekly Newsletter Summer 2019 Week 7 Please reserve the evening of Friday 27th September for a family fun event at our new sports venue, The York Club in Windsor Great Park. From 6 -8pm there will be a BBQ and plenty of sporting activities for all ages. Further details to follow. Nursery presented a cheque to George from the Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice charity this week for £1,930. This was an amazing sum, raised from the Nursery children’s pedal push in May. This will fund 35 sessions for poorly children. Thank you so much to our Nursery parents for their support.
Wellbeing Tip of the Week
We have such a lot of musical talent in school. Particular congratulations to William in Transition and Joanna in Form 5 who participated in the Windsor Piano Festival last weekend and came first in their age groups. We also saw much talent in the instrumental assembly on Tuesday when many of our children aged between 7 and 11 each performed a piece on piano, violin, trombone, cello, trumpet, guitar and flute. On Wednesday Forms 5 and 6 had their first mixed cricket match. We hosted at our new home ground, The York Club, and played against St George’s Windsor. Over the course of the afternoon each team worked hard to gain lots of runs, catches and wickets. We won
Help if you can… be kinder to your fellow humans, kinder to the earth, oceans and trees … all of the animals from whales to the beautiful bees. Help reduce, reuse, recycle, be the change in a world that can be wonderful and also strange. Just one little thing a day…. please help and try to be kind. Sophie Powles
At the same time as the Cocos Islands report millions of pieces of plastic waste flooding their beaches, the beautiful Isle of Capri has announced a total ban on single-use plastics and warned that tourists will be fined if they bring any with them (including flip-flops!).
all four matches and had an excellent time, apart from the rain of course. Everyone is really looking forward to more fixtures at our fantastic new home ground. The children in Form 1M put their acting skills into action this morning to portray the parable of The Good Samaritan, in a unique and entertaining assembly. They used the famous Beatles song for a little ‘Help’ along the way.
Of course, SUPAs will be writing to congratulate their Mayor, Giovanni De Martino, and will offer to come and talk to him about what Upton is doing! Please keep saying ‘No’ to single-use plastic. Upton House School
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